When submitting edits, please also hit the Edit button on the memorial and send the source of you information through the Other link. I am receiving many too many edit requests without sourcing that do not seem to be correct. Thank you.

Is the source for the exact date, church and minister the Pension File?

All I had to go on was a reference from a 1924 book by a family member that the third son died at "The Battle of Chatanooga (sic)" It confused me for a while as the first son was named Thomas George, but after I found his burial record in England with the 2nd son it started to come together. The first "Thomas George" died in 1823 and there was another "Thomas George" baptized at Manchester in April 1825.

The only reference to a middle initial for this "Thomas" was "Thomas G." on his pension index card on Ancestry. Does the pension record give his middle name or Initial?

His occupation on enlistment was "Ship Carpenter" and on the 1855 New York Census at Buffalo "Caulker" and the 1860 US Census at Peru, LaSalle Co., IL "Caulker" as well.

This is coming together nicely as a younger sister married a "Alexander Barbeau" a Ship Carpenter at Oswego.

Sorry to ramble. I'm off on a road trip to Kingston tomorrow to photograph their father's monument.

RE: Find A Grave Memorial# 65419013Thank you, Janet, for the editing of John's memorial. Yes, I went ahead and suggested an edit for you to the connection to parents George and America Ott Bruner, as there is no memorial for her name under her second marriage to Ichabod Turley. After much research, the site of her actual grave has been under question for years. Her second husband, Ichabod, was more than likely buried on his own farm with his first wife after his death, but I have been unable to find any documentation. Several family members believe America was buried on the farmland near her first husband, George Bruner, or at Hillcrest Cemetery, when she later owned property in Floyd County. If in either location, it is an unmarked grave. I have not asked the creator of her memorial to make any changes to her last name, as it might confuse other researchers, and there is no memorial to connect Ichabod Turley as a husband. As John's mother, she was, of course, America Ott Bruner.

I understand that they were 2 different men. I know that things get confusing when dealing with mistakes on headstones and records of cemeteries. I have to deal with this with 2 of my older sisters that died as infants.

Thanks!I appreciate the reply! I wish there were more records, but then again we're lucky so many records have been preserved, I guess I shouldn't complain! I'm hoping to visit Augusta and Marietta someday!

Augusta HospitalHi Janet, You contacted me some time ago concerning my 3x great grandfather Darwin Callaway being moved from Magnolia Cemetery to Marietta (I am forever in your debt for this info, by the way!) To refresh your memory, he was being transferred to Andersonville and was "left for treatment" at a hospital in Augusta, where he died in March 1864. Just wondering, do you have any more info about the hospital where he died in Augusta in 1864? I hope to get to Georgia some day and visit these sites. Thanks!